The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-04-09
Advance Rates on the Maryland Central

Advance Rates on the Maryland Central.
The apparently uncaled for advance in the pas
senger rates on the Maryland Central road is
causing great deal of unfavorable comment and
we apprehend that the movement will have q
damaging effect upon the business of the road BY
driving people to other means of travel. 1t will
also injure the business of summer hotels and
boarding houses, because people will not patron
ize these when they are charged exorbtant rail-
road fares, and thus the business interests along
the line of the road will be damaged. The coun-
try along the Maryland Central railroad is the
most attractive of any in the vicinity Of Baltimore
and offers superior inducements to people who
spend their summers away from the heat of the
city and within easy access of it. Railroad fares
and odations are the first things that these
people consider, and they will not locate upon the
line of road whose rates at once strike them as
being exorbitantly high. We believe the Re-
cevers of the Maryland Central want to do all
they can to accommodate the travelling public, but
they will find that the policy of high rates for
suburban travel will not only hurt their road, but
it will also have damaging effect upon property
along its line, by driving away people who might
otherwise build themselves summer houses and
perhaps become permanent residents and regular
patrons. To build up the country along the road,
and thus increase its business, it is necessary to
offer inducements to the public, and this can only
be donet through the medium ofcheap fares, coupled
with proper train service.
Herefords Going West.--The Marvland
Farmer says: awe sometimes object to our young
men going West, because we believe it is greatly
for their advantage to remain in Maryland, but
we do not object to our fine stock going there, for
in due time it returns with ten fold interest, as
improved specimens of the equine, or as extra fine
beef for our epicures, and good supplies for our
citizens generally. Augustus Sattler, Of Norfolk,
Nebraska, attracted hither by the great sale of
Percherons, by Mr.. Walters, after choosing of
these splendid horses, secured young Hereford
bulls from E. G. Merryman, which we have just
seen on their journey to the West. Some years
since this would have been a common occurrence,
for the white faces of the Hayfeld farm of John
Merryman were frequently ON their way westward
but since the death of that lover and breeder Of
Herefords, the passage of this fine stock has not
been frequent. The son, Mr.. E. G .Merryman,
has, however, commenced the inherited work in
earnest now. He has no less than 66 head of this
splendid stock, registered, and is now prepared to
fill orders for the Herefords with stock which
not be exceled. The Maryland Herefords are
we'll known in all parts of our country"
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Death Of an Estimable Woman.-Mrs.
Sallie Ridgely Grason, wife of ex-J Judge Richard
Grason, died at her residence, in Towsantown, at
o'clock on Thursday evening. She had been i'll
all the winter and had been lying at the point of
death for several weeks. Mrs. Grason was
daughter of the late Charles Sterett Ridgely, and
a sister of Andrew Ridgely, who was at one time
U. S. District Attorney for Maryland; also of
Randolph Ridgely, who distinguished himself in
the Mexican war. Besides her husband, five chill
dren survive her-three sons and two daughters.
Of her sons Messrs. William and John Grason are
members of the bar, while the youngest, Charles
Sterett, is engaged in business at Kennedy Min
nesota: Her daughters are married to Thomas j.
George, civil engineer, and Dir. Joseph l.. Finley,
of Queen Anne's county.
The funeral will take place this saturday. af-
ternoon. at O'Clock, at Trinity P. E. Church. In
terment at Greenmount Cemetery.